Montoya’s new look features the tooth-filled mouth of a cartoon jet wrapped aggressively around the mask’s cage, with smoking exhaust pipes coming out the side, a Jets logo on the forehead between menacing (and sparking) eyes, and even some bullet holes mixed in with the rivets and metal of the plane below the chin:

The old-school fighter jet is featured in its entirety on his backplate, smoking a cigar above his nickname, “Big Cubano,” and the initials of family members. Together it pays homage to the Cuban heritage that Montoya takes so much pride in, something that has been featured on his past masks as well, including last year’s lid while with the New York Islanders:

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Kevin Woodley is a rec-league target and former contributing editor of the Goalie News magazine. He has written about the Vancouver Canucks and NHL for The Associated Press, USA Today, Sports Illustrated and The Hockey News for the last decade, and covered the 2010 Olympics for The AP.

9 Comments

Collarbone
on September 8, 2012 at 8:59 AM

There is one problem with this mask. There are no jets on it anywhere. The backplate has a propeller plane and the front does as well. I may be wrong but I don’t think that jets have exhaust pipes like that.

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